Implementation of a mentorship on the english communicative performance within a group of accounting students belonging to the english general program at a private university

Abstract:

This thesis project examines the impact of implementing a mentorship on a
group of Contador Auditor (from now on Accounting) students that belong to the
English General Program at a priva te university. These students ha ve different
problems in terms of their development of the four English language skills and also
in their communicative performance. One of the main ideas in this project is to
measure if a mentorship program is able to overcome these problems to a certain
extent and to improve their English level. Regarding the methodological context of
this project, researchers decided to support their arguments using a mixed method
design which allows them to interpret data from two perspectives; qualitative and
quantitative. Before working on the project design, a research was done to find
other projects that could share similar purposes; two projects, Mentoring Project in
the Polytechnic University of Madrid in Spain and Perceptions of Mentors and
Schemes Participating in an English Language Mentoring Scheme ata University
in Hong Kong in China, were found and they helped researchers to gather general
information on how a mentoring program should be done and to foresee problems
that could be experienced during the process. Later on, different mentoring models
were studied and used, which allowed students to experience different learning
procedures.
At the beginning of the intervention , there was a need for checking students'
English level and for this, students sat for a diagnostic test that measured their
performance on the four English language skills (speaking, reading, listening, and
writing). The analysis at the end of this project showed that, students from the Accounting Major ata private university began to improve their results in the target
language once the mentoring program started.